Child prodigy Esperanza Spalding taught herself how to play the violin at the tender age of 5. The Grammy Award winning bassist began playing the bass violin in clubs as a teenager. At the age of 20, she became the youngest instructor at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

In this interview with iRock Jazz, Esperanza Spalding explains the advantages to having an expanded musical palate.

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